The Silence

Ritsuko watched as he left, the promise to meet again hanging in the air. The femme could only smile before turning tail and leaping over the frozen water with ease, her lean form soon vanishing into the darkening tree line opposite of the way Vyren had gone.

I'll come back, she thought, I'll definitely come back.

And as both forms disappeared, the sun set lower, and lower, until all that remained was the swatch of color in the sky, until that faded too.